Biography Category
(p r´ ts sm l n´sk n) (KEY) , c.1842–1885, Russian novelist and essayist who wrote in Hebrew. He settled in Vienna and founded the Hebrew monthly ...
1894–95, conflict between China and Japan for control of Korea in the late 19th cent. The Li-lto Convention of 1885 provided for mutual troop withdr...
family of languages spoken by over a billion people in central and SE Asia. This linguistic family is second only to the Indo-European stock in the nu...
1781–1867, American naval officer, b. near Goshen, N.Y. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1800 and resigned after a year’s service, but reent...
(sh myänôv ´ts shläN´sky ) (KEY) , city (1991 est. pop. 80,600), l skie prov., S Poland. A center of the Katowice mining and industrial region,...
1835–1912, English scholar and philologist. Skeat took holy orders in 1860, but illness cut short his church career. At Cambridge he served as a lec...